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  • gilligansyle
    gilligansyle Posts: 4,124 Forumite
    The day has just got even better
    :j:j:j:j:T:T:T:j:j:j

    I have just had a phonecall to say I can start some work experience in the Local Authority that I contacted about a month ago.

    I start on the 18th April so a bit of time to get my work wardrobe sorted and time to brush up on some childcare law :D:D:D:D:D

    Perhaps life doesn't suck so much after all

    DTxx

    Sorry, I missed this, hope you had a good visit.

    :T:TReally good news about the work experience, but will no doubt feel a bit daunting. But it's all CV fodder.
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    "The days pass so fast, let's try to make each one better than the last"
  • clairewop
    clairewop Posts: 8,007 Forumite
    Congratulations Dt
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  • Great news DT :)
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    So, how did it go? I hope that the visit was a positive one for you all.

    Very good news indeed about the work experience - that sort of thing is invaluable, and definitely a step in the right direction.

    xx
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • funnyflipp
    funnyflipp Posts: 278 Forumite
    Hi DT hope your coffee went well and massive congrats on the work experience

    Hoping you haven't gone to sort out your wardrobe and fallen down inside (mind you my mother has told me not everyone's wardrobe looks like mine!!)
    £112121.02 10 Years and counting!
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    42Lbs /23 Down 19 to go!:shocked:
    So now I just need to keep going!
    Nearly half way through the year and I'm still here :D
  • Sorry for the silence life has been mad and I have a terrible cold. So a quick catch up.

    The lunch time meet went well we laughed a lot and she wants to meet again and says we will meet up as families when they feel ready.

    Wardrobe shopping has not gone well so I will manage with what I have got and see how it goes.

    Been spending a lot of time swotting so that I did feel a complete dunce on Monday.

    Been to Cardiff and collected OS stayed in the secret hotel again and saved £6.50 so that was good.

    OHs birthday tomorrow so need to go and wrap pressies but need a lemsip first as I feel really rough.

    Payday is at last nearly here and I am really pleased with how the budgeting has gone since our new regime in the New year we have reduced the shortfall in the budget by two thirds. We have just gone into overdraft but normally we would be at our limit by now and with some payments that are due I am expecting to be out of overdraft by the time we get paid. The plan is then to redo the budgets to cover the next six months until the next payday and hopefully I will be able to budget out the rest of the shortfall so that we start from zero. Not making any great inroads into debt repayment I need a job for that and that has to be my priority I will see how the work experience goes and if I feel that a solicitor's job is not likely in the near future I am just going to take any job to get back into work mode so that we can repay some debt and also budget in some work on the house and some fun for the kids. If I could get a decent job I would really like to send them to a private school again as I am really very unhappy with the school they are going to and the progress being made. There doesn't seem to be any proper targets being set and the reading in particular is all over the place with inappropriate books being sent home with no apparent rhyme or reason to them I am very concerned.

    Have managed to sort everybody's outfit for the wedding in 2 weeks time just need to take my little girl for shoes so that's a big relief.

    Will need to find some spare time to properly work out the figures for my new budget starting next month but may wait until my head is not quite so stuffed full of cold.

    Love to all

    DTxx
  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    nice to hear from you and glad that the meeting went ok..good luck with getting a job..it's so hard out there at the moment.
  • MatyMoo
    MatyMoo Posts: 3,176 Forumite
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    So pleased that the meet went well and meeting up as families will be on the cards in the future.

    Happy Birthday for your DH for today and good luck for you on Monday with the work experience.

    Maty
    :j Proud Member of Mike's Mob :j
  • gilligansyle
    gilligansyle Posts: 4,124 Forumite
    Good luck for Monday, will be thinking of you. You seem to have accepted your new regime quite well.

    If you can't manage private school for the twins, I take it given where you live that moving them to a different state school is out of the question?
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    "The days pass so fast, let's try to make each one better than the last"
  • Keeping_Motivated
    Keeping_Motivated Posts: 3,653 Forumite
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    edited 17 April 2011 at 11:09AM
    How about leaving them at the school (if they are happy in general?) and getting them both private tutors too? Would be much cheaper if you cant really afford private school. Good luck with the job hunting. Hope you feel better soon.
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